Episode 31: I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi Aarons
Today we have a guest essay. I'm Wearing Tunics Now by Wendi Aarons, which was originally published by McSweeney's Internet Tendency (https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-wearing-tunics-now).
Wendi Aarons is a freelance humor writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker Daily Shouts, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, US Weekly Fashion Police, Wall Street Journal, and various other outlets including NPR Austin affiliate KUT.
Her writing is included in the anthologies Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now (Putnam, 2015) and Keep Scrolling Til You Feel Something:Twenty-One Years of Humor from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (McSweeneys, 2019). Her humor pieces have been performed by award-winning actresses including Uzo Aduba of "Orange Is the New Black”, Sharon Horgan, and Alison Brie of “Glow.”
Wendi is also the author of the best selling humor essay collection I'm Wearing Tunics Now (https://www.amazon.com/Im-Wearing-Tunics-Now-Growing/dp/152487373X) (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2022), Socks (Chronicle Books, 2023) and middle-grade novel Ginger Mancino, Kid Comedian (June 2022, BookBar Press).
18 Jul 2024
Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana Norris
Episode 30: Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana Norris
Today we have a guest essay, Revised Pinterest FAQs by Dana Norris This piece of satire was originally published by The Rumpus’s Funny Women Column (https://therumpus.net/2013/02/12/funny-women-93-revised-pinterest-faqs/).
Dana Norris (https://www.dananorris.net) is the author of The Storytelling Code: 10 Simple Rules to Shape and Tell a Brilliant Story, and the founder of Story Club (http://www.storyclubchicago.com/), a monthly storytelling show that has been featured in Poets & Writers (http://www.pw.org/content/live_lit_blows_through_the_windy_city) magazine. Story Club is currently held on a monthly basis in Cleveland (http://www.storyclubcleveland.com/), Pittsburgh, and SW Michigan.
Dana resides in the Cleveland area, where she teaches for Literary Cleveland (http://www.litcleveland.org/). She has been featured in Cleveland.com (http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/07/clevelands_story_club_bar_even.html), Cleveland Scene (https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/yes-i-moved-to-cleveland-and-you-should-too/Content?oid=4672794), the Chicago Reader (http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/welcome-to-pleasuretown-fall-arts/Content?oid=10885482), the Chicago Tribune (http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-11-08/entertainment/ct-ott-1109-storytelling-20121108_1_chats-stories-tyler-clark), as well as on WBEZ (http://www.wbez.org/blogs/nico-lang/2013-04/changing-face-chicago-comedy-106777) and WCPN (https://wclv.ideastream.org/programs/sound-of-ideas/dana-norris-performance). Dana has been named one of the funniest women in Ohio (https://www.cleveland.com/expo/life-and-culture/erry-2018/11/be682cacdf2902/see-13-of-the-funniest-women-c.html) by Cleveland.com. In 2015 she was named one of Chicago's top 50 literary influencers (http://lit.newcity.com/2015/06/04/lit-50-2015-who-really-books-in-chicago/5/)by New City Chicago.
Thanks for listening, and another story next week.
11 Jul 2024
A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund Lannin
Episode 29: A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund Lannin
Today we have a guest essay, A Prayer to St. Anthony by Rosamund Lannin
Rosamund Lannin (https://www.rosamund.co) reads and writes in Chicago, where she's pleasantly surprised to have lived for over 20 years. During that time, she has published short stories and personal essays in Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Tor.com, and Vice. She's currently working on a novel about live action roleplaying and the nature of fantasy; if you're an agent who's into that, don't be shy. You can find her most places on the Internet @rosamund.
A Prayer to St. Anthony was originally published by The Woodlands Magazine (https://woodlandsmag.com/2024/06/16/a-prayer-to-st-anthony/).
Rosamund introduces her essay as, “When my new husband was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, I was forced to examine my unhealthy relationship with objects.”
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